Category: Diversity

  • Movie Review: “Love & Gelato”

    Movie Review: “Love & Gelato”

    Lina Emerson (Susanna Skaggs) just graduated high school and is looking forward to attending MIT in the fall after she and her mother go to Italy for a mother / daughter trip. Unfortunately, her mother was very sick and before she passed away she made Lina promise to go to Italy by herself. Wanting to…

  • Movie Review: “Palmer”

    Movie Review: “Palmer”

    After spending 12 years in jail, Palmer (Justin Timberlake) has arrived back home and is staying with his grandmother, Vivian (June Squibb). On Vivian’s property is a trailer that she rents out to Shelly (Juno Temple) and her little boy, Sam (Ryder Allen). Shelly has an abusive boyfriend and is a drug addict and she…

  • Movie Review: “CODA”

    Movie Review: “CODA”

    Click the link to Wikipedia for more information: CODA = Child of Deaf Adults Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) is the youngest child of Jackie (Marlee Matlin) and Frank (Troy Kotsur) and the sister of Leo (Daniel Durant). Ruby is the only member of the family that can hear. As such, she is critically important to…

  • Movie Review: “The Wedding Year”

    Movie Review: “The Wedding Year”

    Mara (Sarah Hyland) finds fault with everyone she goes on a date with….then dumps him. One night, Sarah was hungry, so she swiped right on a chef, Jake (Tyler James Williams). A pancake dinner became a pancake breakfast and Mara and Jake became an item! Mara’s best friend, Alex (Matt Shively), asks her what Jake’s…

  • Movie Review: “Lyle Lyle Crocodile”

    Movie Review: “Lyle Lyle Crocodile”

    Hector P. Valenti (Javier Barden) has dreams of becoming a star. Unfortunately, his act is passe and after he was booted from his latest audition, he was told he needed something they have never seen before. Walking home to his family’s brownstone in New York City, Hector goes into an exotic animal store to look…

  • Movie Review: “Strange World”

    Movie Review: “Strange World”

    The Clade family, in particular, Jaeger (Dennis Quaid) and his son Searcher (Jake Gyllenhaal), are famous in the land of Avalonia as great explorers. Avalonia is surrounded by impenetrable mountains, and the people of Avalonia think that there is a better world beyond those mountains. But no one has been able to reach the other…

  • Movie Review: “Bros”

    Movie Review: “Bros”

    Bobby (Billy Eichner) is a very passionate podcaster dealing with LGBTQ issues and history. Bobby is single at 40 years old and proud of that. Well, kinda. He was recently named director of the upcoming LGBTQ History Museum in New York City….a wonderful achievement, and the perfect person for the job considering the passion Bobby…

  • Movie Review: “Hello Goodbye and Everything in Between”

    Movie Review: “Hello Goodbye and Everything in Between”

    Claire (Talia Ryder) and Aidan (Jordan Fisher) meet at a party at the beginning of their senior year. They decide that, no matter what, they will break up at the end of the year (assuming they are still together) so they can be free to lead their lives the way they feel best. Claire is…

  • Movie Review: “Cheaper by the Dozen”

    Movie Review: “Cheaper by the Dozen”

    First of all…..everyone growing up on Gardiner Dr in Bay Shore, NY knows damn well that the Bakers had 12 kids (I lost count /moved away at Kim) and 2 parents (Sam and Lila)…..that made 14! But, I digress to my childhood, sorry…..:-) Divorced, Paul Baker (Zach Braff) met, and eventually married divorced marketing graduate,…